The Monkey Trial A famous quote “Great minds think alike”. In the small town of Hillsboro there wasn’t much to think about that is, the bible was the main source of the citizens. There were laws to think otherwise, such as the right to have your own opinion on how the world came to be. To these people in the small town of Hillsboro the law was murder for any man or woman to …showed first 75 words of 572 total…

…showed last 75 words of 572 total…trial shocked America because it tested the law. In the long run the law lost because in the end America was able to form their own opinions and were capable of having their own ideas. The whole idea was to grant all of who are Americans our freedom. It was hard to believe that one schoolteacher went up against the whole judicial ideas of the creation of the world, and in the long run won.