Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan faced each other in the 1920s in what legal circumstance? A) both ran for Congress ag
ainst each other B) a trial regarding Jim Crow laws in the South C) as major candidates in a Presidential election D) a trial regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools
The answerC, is incorrect. The person before me gave the wronganswer. The <u>real</u><u>answer</u> is D: A trial regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools. This was held in Tennessee in 1925. It was essentially a sham trial in which John Scopes was found ‘guilty’ of teaching evolution, though the fine assessed him was never paid
The correct answer is D) a trial regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools,
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan faced each other in the 1920s in the following legal circumstance: a trial regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools.
We are talking about "The Scopes Trial" of 1925 that confronted two of the most renown attorneys in the United States: Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Tennessee schoolteacher Joseph Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution theory in class, something that had been prohibited by the Butler Act.
There is no universally accepted definition of an. 'oppressive regime', but the term is generally used. to refer to countries where there are “laws, customs. or practices that systematically produce inequalities. that oppress specific groups within a society.”
