Name: Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul
Released: 2006-04-12

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

S1 · E7 — Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

S1:E7 · Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

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10 episodes in this season

Antietam

60 min

Massacre At Mystic

60 min

Einstein's Letter

60 min

Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley

60 min

When America Was Rocked

60 min

Gold Rush

60 min

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The Homestead Strike

60 min

Freedom Summer

60 min

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Shay's Rebellion: America's First Civil War

60 min

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

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Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Apr 12, 2006

July 21, 1925 marked the start of the Scopes Monkey Trial. At issue was the Butler Act, which had been passed a few months earlier by the Tennessee General Assembly. The law said "... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals".The debate of evolution and divine creation is one that continues to this very day, and this trial is often referenced to.

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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

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Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Apr 12, 2006

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