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The early 1920's found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only whether their behavior met the approval of their intellect. Intellectual experimentation flourished. Americans danced to the sound of the Jazz Age, showed their contempt for alcoholic prohibition, debated abstract art and Freudian theories. In a response to the new social patterns set in motion by modernism, a wave of revivalism developed, becoming especially strong in the American South.
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This Scopes Trial web site is an extensive collection of material that covers the courtroom proceedings, the impact of the decisions, and the continuing controversy over evolution versus creation, freedoms of speech and religion, and the debate over the limits of science in the classroom. The site contains biographies, cartoons, trial transcripts, memoirs, links, and a bibliography. The site also offers scanned images of the text from which Scopes taught. The writer of the site argues that the Scopes trial was the greatest of the century.