Question

The superintendent testified he had talked with Mr. Scopes the day before the latter's arrest. "I told him he had violated the law but he said...the law was

nconstitutional anyway"-Scopes Trial Excerpt
What major social movements came into conflict during the 1925 trial of John Scopes in Tennessee?
A. Prohibition versus organized crime
B. Isolation versus international
C. Belief in modernism versus fundamentalism
D. Evolution versus technological innovation

Answer 1

C. Belief in modernism versus fundamentalism

Step-by-step explanation:

Fundamentalism refers to a principle that make a person being attached to a certain traditional way of thinking.

Modernism is the opposite. It's a principle that make a person keep renewing their thinking based on the latest knowledge and technology that's developed in the world.

During the Scope trial, John Thomas Scopes was brought to court because he's teaching the theory of evolution to the students. At that time, the state of Tennessee was extremely religious and prohibited the teachers to teach evolutionary theory. They wanted the students to be thought the biblical theory of evolution.