Describe the ways in which the Scopes Monkey Trial was symbolic of the larger debate raging in society between "modernity and tradition."

The Scopes Monkey Trial is also called The Scopes Trial. This scope was prosecuted in 1925 by a science teacher John Scopes for the teaching evolution in the school Tennessee public school which further made an illegal bill.

Scopes was not sure that he taught the subject clearly and right but he was sure that the material that he has been used is related to the evolution. But later on, John was charged for violating the Butler Act.

Explanation:

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.