Question

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan faced each other in the 1920s in what legal circumstance? A) both ran for Congress against 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

Answer 1

The answer C, is incorrect. The person before me gave the wrong answer. The real answer 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

Answer 2

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.