... conditions that were present before the First World War. This included fundamentalist religion for a number of reasons. America at this time was overwhelmingly Christian, minorities accounted for a very small percentage making it an acceptable idea to unofficially cater to Christians. The first red scare was occurring ... contribute to the tension preceding the Scopes trial. Historians estimate that only 30% of high schools taught evolution in 1930's, it wasn't until the 1960's that evolution actually gained a wide acceptance in high schools. Though in our modern secular view, we can se...

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... discussion of evolution during the Scopes Trial had consuming effects on the religious routines in the United States during the Roaring Twenties. Prayers in school became challenged and in some schools even abolished and other religious events, teachings and activities have become controversial. These changes illustrate that different people and groups tried now to break out of the dominance of the ... church in their daily life. There are many "good Christians" who accept the Genesis account of creations what is a metaphor. These "good Christian" started thinking and accepting Darwin's...

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... different categories that fundamentalism can be broken into. Jeffery K. Hadden has identified four types of fundamentalism. First, there is theological fundamentalism. This is the movement concerned with defending traditional Christian doctrine against modern thinking. Secondly, there is political fundamentalism. This is a combination of theological fundamentalism and the idea that religious leaders have to combat against worldly vices. Political ... modernism. It started off very steady and progressive. It became evident that it would soon begin to affect ideas and beliefs within the Pr...

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... July 10 to July 21 of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. The Scopes trial involved a high school teacher named John Thomas Scopes. He was being tried for teaching evolution in public schools. The theory of evolution stated that human beings developed from simpler forms of life over a long period of time. Back then, the only thing teachers could teach about was the ... Bible view of how humans originated, and this was by God. Clarence Darrow, Scopes lawyer, was all for teaching evolution in public schools. However, William Jennings Bryan, a famous Christian fundamentalist, believed that the word...

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... creation subjects." William Jennings Bryan, the main prosecution lawyer, could be characterized as a believer in fundamentalism. Earlier in his career, he led a crusade to ban Darwin's evolution theory from American schools. He declared in his opening statement "if we were to allow the teaching of evolution, then we would be advocating the sterilization of an inferior stock." He also said that ... argued that Scopes wasn't on trial, civilization was, he meant that evolution would be discouraged if people were not able to learn of it. Judge Raulston was a hard-line conservative Christian...

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... to freedom of speech. This created a media frenzy that put Dayton on the mirror. William Jennings Bryan headed a fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin's theory of evolution from being taught in schools. He, like Richard Owen before, resented any theory that would undermine traditional values which he long supported. By 1925, Bryan succeeded in getting legislation introduced in fifteen states to ban ... for one of the most unconstitutional trials and unjustified trials in history. On July 10th , 1925, a travesty of a trial began. Judge John T. Raulston was the presiding judge, and also...

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... was still getting treated the same and had hard times wherever they go either North or South. Women also played a huge role in the tensions of the 1920's. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was the largest and most influential women's group of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage[ CITATION GDo0s l 1033 ... the United States. In the 1920's, a huge battle between fundamentalism vs modernism was happening. By 1929 five southern states had passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Traditionalist...

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... repression.# With a large following, Fundamentalists easily passed laws to curb the rise of Modernism. One of the most influential laws of the era became the law against teaching evolution in schools. At the climax of the battle between Modernism and Fundamentalism was the Scopes Trial. Within the Modernist generation was a class of scientists in which secularism was building. One teacher, John ... a Modernist society in which science could blossom. The Prosecution's primary purpose was simply to convict Scopes of breaking the law; however, it's greater purpose was to defend the doctrin...

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... concerns, which have persisted in American culture since the birth of the nation. At issue in both of these conflicts was who had control of the society. Who controlled the schools -- the masses or the teachers? Who determined the law -- the people or the leaders of the town? That there was no resolution was unsettling. Scopes lost the case, but won ... . As Bryan noted at the time, The case has assumed the proportions of a battle-royal between unbelief that attempts to speak through so-called science and the defenders of the Christian faith, speaking through the legislators of Tennessee...

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... . During the scopes trial, a debate between fundamentalists in the rural south and the modernists of the northern cities, Fundamentalists were discredited by modernists, but the question of religion and public schools remained controversial and unresolved, even though Scopes was convicted. Prohibition was another controversy that helped to define the 1920s. This was a controversy that helped to provide definition to the 1920s ... election to state and local offices in Indiana and Texas. At first, the majority of native-born white Americans tolerated the Klan because it vowed to uphold hi...

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