Sacco and Vanzetti ? 1920 case, 2 robbers committed an armed robbery of factory employees; 2 anarchist immigrants (Sacco and Vanzetti) were said to have looked like the robbers and were executed in 1927 John T. Scopes ? high school biology teacher from TN who volunteered to teach evolution and be arrested/brought to trial for it (as a result of passing of the Butler Act which made teaching evolution illegal) Clarence Darrow ? Scopes? lawyer, defendant in Scopes Trial, lost and Scopes was fined $100 (overturned later due to technicality) William J. Bryan ? prosecutor in Scopes Trial, argued in favor of creationism and ultimately won the case, 3-time Democratic presidential candidate
the roaring '20s U.S. history review
Sacco and Vanzetti ? 1920 case, 2 robbers committed an armed robbery of factory employees; 2 anarchist immigrants (Sacco and Vanzetti) were said to have looked like the robbers and were executed in 1927 John T. Scopes ? high school biology teacher from TN who volunteered to teach evolution and be arrested/brought to trial for it (as a result of passing of the Butler Act which made teaching evolution illegal) Clarence Darrow ? Scopes? lawyer, defendant in Scopes Trial, lost and Scopes was fined $100 (overturned later due to technicality) William J. Bryan ? prosecutor in Scopes Trial, argued in favor of creationism and ultimately won the case, 3-time Democratic presidential candidate
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