It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read The Scopes Monkey Trial by Samuel Willard Crompton
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After the passage of the Butler Act, which made it unlawful for a state-funded school in Tennessee to teach that humans evolved from lower organisms, 24-year-old high school teacher John Scopes intentionally violated the law. Arrested and charged on May 5, 1925, Scopes became the centerpiece in a trial that pitted two of the finest legal minds of the time against one another. Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan's participation in the trial served as the capstone to his prior unsuccessful advocacy to cut off funds to schools that taught evolution. Prominent trial attorney Clarence Darrow, an...
The Scopes Monkey Trial by Samuel Willard Crompton is 129 pages long, and a total of 33,411 words.
This makes it 44% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 2 minutes to read The Scopes Monkey Trial aloud.
The Scopes Monkey Trial is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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