The Scopes Trial - Evolution and Science Clash in the Roaring Twenties

LESSON PLAN for this Episode: The Scopes Trial and the clashing cultures of the 1920s are the focus of this amazing story-lecture from History For Humans.. Evolution and science against the church and fundamentalism, jazz vs Genesis, and rural vs urban all were present in the carnival atmosphere of the trial that represented so much of the changing times of the 1920s. This episode goes through Darwin’s Origin of Species, the Butler Act, and changing values that took hold in urban America during the twenties and how this led to the rise of the KKK, the first Red Scare, and the Palmer Raids as a backlash against jazz, the flappers, the wets, and new consumer culture. For teachers and homeschool parents, I have resources that go with this lesson that include interactive notesheets, a quick quiz, and an extension lesson involving the reading of two case studies of the 1920s- the Red Scare and the Scopes Trial,