The Scopes Trial Considered a "Duel to the Death" by the people involved, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial did not deliver a final verdict on the then controversial issue of evolution being taught in public schools. Jeffrey Moran identifies the 1920's evolutionary debate as "a battle within a much larger cultural war further complicated by urbanism and regionalist tensions between the North and South" (3). One of the stated points of the book is to "clear away …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 790 total…of that time. Works Cited: 1.<Tab/>Edwards, Mark "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolution After 1925," Journal of History, vol: 32 iss: 3 p. 89, 2000 2.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey P. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martins, Boston 2002 3.<Tab/>Moran, Jeffrey "The Scopes Trial and Southern Fundamentalism in Black and White: Race, Region, and Religion." The Journal of Southern History, vol: 70 iss: 1 p. 99