English noun: Scopes trial | |||
1. | Scopes trial (act) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | trial | ||
Domain category | evolution, jurisprudence, law, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny | ||