Meaning of scopes trial
Definition of scopes trial
(noun)
a
highly
publicized
trial
in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes
violated
a Tennessee
state
law by
teaching
evolution
in
high
school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the
verdict
was
later
reversed
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