Scopes trial

The Scopes “Monkey” Trial (called the monkey trial because the trial has to do with Darwin's theory of evolution regarding primates or monkeys) started when a schoolteacher, John Scopes, was put on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a classroom. A few months before the trial the Tennessee governor signed the Butler Bill outlawing the teaching of “anything that denies the story of divine creation of man and teaches instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” This bill set the stage for one of the most famous and controversial trials in American history.
The Scopes Trial had its beginning in the back of Fred Robinson's drug store in Dayton Tennessee, May 5, 1925. George Rappalyea, local coal company manager , came to the drug store with a copy of the ACLU (American Civil liberties Union) announcement that was willing to offer its services to anyone willing to challenge the anti-evolutio...