What Was the Central Issue Addressed by the Highly Publicized

question 45

Multiple Choice

What was the central issue addressed by the highly publicized Scopes trial of 1925?

• A) The Ku Klux Klan's right of the to be involved in politics at the state level
• B) The legality of the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee
• C) The 1920s-era conflict between fundamentalist Protestants and Catholics in America
• D) The biblical evidence for human evolution from lesser primates

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