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+Religion in the 1920sFundamentalism and the Scopes Trial
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Religious movement Followers were concerned of nation’s moral decline
the modern consumer culture
relaxed ethics growing urbanism
Fundamentalism
Believed that the Bible was literally true and without error
Creationism—the belief that God created the world as described in the Bible Rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution
Human beings had developed from lower forms of live over the course of millions of years
+ Billy Sunday
Aimee Semple McPherson
+The Butler Act Tennessee, 1925
outlawed any teaching that denied “the story of the Divine Creation of man as
taught in the Bible” and taught instead that “man descended from a lower order of animals”
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Advertised for a teacher who would be willing to teach
evolution
John T. Scopeshigh school biology teacher from Dayton, TN
+The Scopes Trial, 1925Prosecutor— Defender—
William Jennings Bryan Clarence Darrow
+The Scopes Trial, 1925 Scopes found guilty of
teaching evolution
and is fined $100
Parts of the trial are broadcasted over the radio Darrow’s cross-
examination of Bryan did little for Fundamentalism
Fundamentalists were isolated from mainstream Protestantism Political activism
declined
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