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 * Shaker Name:** John T. Scopes


 * Basic Work:** John T. Scopes graduated in 1924 from University of Kentucky with a law degree, and soon after moved to Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. He began as a science teacher at Rhea County High school, as well as a the part-time football coach. Scopes was planning on moving back to Kentucky, where he grew up but instead stayed because of a women he was interested in and it changed his life forever. After Tennessee passed the Butler Act, making it a crime to teach evoltion in schools, the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) reacted immeditly. They went around Tennessee asking for a teacher to volunteer to act as the defendent for the trail and Scopes agreeded, after all he believed in evolution.


 * Key Work:** The State of Tennessee vs. John T Scopes trial started on July 10th 1925, and Scopes had Clarence Darrow defending him. The prosecuter was anti-evolutionist, William Jennings Bryan, and when people starting hearing about the Scopes trial, also known as the "Monkey Trail", reporters from all over flew to Dayton, this would be the first live trail on the radio. Scopes wasn't even sure if he had taught the lesson on evolution but at the trail Scopes admitted to teacher the chapter from the Biology textbook and two of his students were witnesses to this. The point of this trial was from the words of Judge Raulston, "the vital question now involved for your consideration is, has the statute been violated by the said John T. Scopes or any other person by teaching a theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and in Rhea County since the passage of this act and prior to this investigation. If you find the statute has been thus violated, you should indict the guilty person or persons, as the case may be." Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution to his students and was fined with $100. After the trail he gave up teaching and accepted a scholarship to Univeristy of Chicago where he studied geology and took a job as a potroleum engineer in Venezuela. The Butler Act was finally overturned in Janurary 1927, thanks in large part to the Scopes Trial.


 * Key Personnel:** Some key people in the trail was his defendent, Clarence Darrow, one of the Top American lawyers of his time. Also a key person was the prosecuter, William Jennings Bryan, who was best known for his prominent role in the Scopes evolution case, he was also a great speaker and influential politician.


 * Why/How a shaker?** Scopes in a shaker because he was the definition of a what a shaker entails, he challenged the system by offereing himself to be prosecuted against the state of Tennessee for something that he believed in. He didn't even necessarily teach it but it volunteered anyway so the trail could take place. Teaching evolution was against the law in the state of Tennessee and he went against it to try and provoke change. He was just a average man teaching science and got himself into this mess by choice. His penetly wasn't a great one but he still shoke up the court system in order to teach something to students that was important in his and many other peoples opinion.


 * Links: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_scopes.html**