The Butler Act was a 1925 TennesseeTennessee (IPA: /IPA chart for English|/) is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the Union. Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname it earned during the War of 1812, in which volunteer soldiers from Tennessee played a prominent role, especially during the Battle of New Orleans.Brief History of Tennessee in the War of 1812 from the Tennessee State ...Tennessee law forbidding public school teachers to deny the literal Biblical account of man’s origin and to teach in its place the evolution of man from lower orders of animals. The law did not prohibit the teaching of any evolutionary theoryThe modern evolutionary synthesis (often referred to simply as the new synthesis, the modern synthesis, the evolutionary synthesis), refers to a period of about a decade (1936-1947) when ideas from a number of biological specialities came together in a unified theory of evolution which was agreed and accepted by the great majority of working biologists. ...evolutionary theory of any other species of plant or animal.