William Jennings Bryan

that put religious beliefs against scientific beliefs. The main figures were William Jennings Bryan and John Scopes. Bryan was a Presbyterian, he was born in Illinois and later became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. John Scopes was arrested for teaching the evolution in school. The Scopes Trial had a major impact on America in 1925, making it illegal to teach about the evolution of life in school. Before William Bryan became a congressman, he practiced law in Jacksonville in 1883-1887 before moving

In 1986 the democratic nominee for the presidential election was a great man named William Jennings Bryan. Bryan was a religious and moral man who stood for the greater good of farmers, the poor and working class. Populists represent the underdog of society that is seeking injustice, during Bryan’s time period it happened to be the farmer’s agriculture industry that was dying out. A few decades before this election the whole country was running off of agriculture, with the industrialization that

History of Modern Day Politics Essential Question: How did William Jennings Bryan contribute to modern day presidential campaigns? America’s history of Presidents has been a long and grand one. With many close races, campaigns have been a crucial part of gaining votes. However the campaigns today are completely different compared to those before those before the nineteenth century. The ideals behind each voter differed greatly and the way each party gathered votes may have been considered strange

William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois on March 19, 1860. He was born into a very religious family and he would pray three times a day. Bryan was homeschooled until he was ten years old because his mother and father were firm believers in education so they wanted their children to be ahead. When Bryan was little he showed interest in both speaking and politics, so it's no surprise that when Bryan was only twelve years old he delivered his father's campaign speech. When he was 15 he was

seeking federal aid or economic relief, they attempted to use the power of the ballot to achieve their goals.1 The united group of farmers used the Populist Party as a springboard to launch their complaints and eventually got their candidate, William Jennings Bryan, nominated for the presidential election of 1896 by the Democratic Party. L. Frank Baum, a newspaper writer who lived in a small prairie town in South Dakota, experienced the populist wave firsthand, attending Bryan’s famous “Cross of Gold”

in the 1920s when morals were loose and girls were looser. While William Jennings Bryan sought to push his fundamentalist views and Clarence Darrow attempted to focus the country's attention on the flaws of the fundamentalists the American people used the hype of the trial to showcase

proceedings were scattered across as well. In part III, a plethora of documents, cartoons, and newspapers are showcased extensively pertaining to the Scopes Trial. Three documents that have stood out were Who Shall Control Our Schools? by William Jennings Bryan and Tennessee Can Dictate Curriculum, Not Answers by R.S. Woodworth. The Scopes Trial, also known as the Monkey Trial, was a court

In his essay, “Who Shall Control our Schools?”, Bryan opens up and shares his thoughts on the materials taught in schools and who should decide what is taught. Bryan examines the sources of information in this essay but specifically examines the role of teachers. I quote, “Professor Scopes has raised a question of the very first magnitude and the ones most

Creationism is the theory that man, the earth, and the rest of the universe was originally created rather than randomly exploding from nothingness into chance existence. We reside on the surface of a small superbly crafted, autonomous self regulating space vehicle. Together with survival, conquest and death we bear witness to beauty, fragrances, love and music. Think about this. Mathematics, philosophy, springtime, depravity, farming, courtship, quasars, and iphones; all came from nothingness?, formed

a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union protested the law with teacher, John Scopes, who agreed to help. The"trial of the century" brought together two famous political enemies, William Jennings Bryan, who led the anti-evolution crusade, and Clarence Darrow, who was known as the best criminal defense lawyer and evolution supporter. The author presents the history of controversy that led to the trial. Fossil discoveries, the rise of religious