• greatly influenced U. S. politics in the early 1900s by fighting big business • promoted populist beliefs • served as the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes TrialWho is described in the box above?

The person who is described above is William Jennings Bryan.

Explanation:

William Jennings Bryan was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of State from 1912 to 1915 and was a three-time Democratic presidential candidate.

Bryan was elected to the House of Representatives in 1890. One of his most important political goals was to run a bimetallic stock instead of the gold stock supported by most businessmen. He lost a total of three presidential elections in 1896, 1900 and 1908.

President Woodrow Wilson appointed Bryan his Secretary of State in 1913 after Bryan helped Wilson win the 1912 presidential election. Bryan resigned in September 1915 because, as a peace activist, he opposed Wilson's actions against Germany after the sinking of Lusitania.

He is best known for the 1925 "monkey trial" of John T. Scopes, in which he accused Scopes of teaching Darwinism. Bryan believed that doctrine would lead to the spread of social Darwinism and that this law of the jungle would eradicate charity from society. He died just five days after the trial in Dayton.

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