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Scopes trial   /skoʊps trˈaɪəl/   Listen
Scopes trial

noun
1.
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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