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Butler Act: Provisions of the law, Challenges & Overview

The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Genesis account of humankind's origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of humans from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account. The law was introduced by Tennessee House of Representatives member John…

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Butler Act topic overview

The analysis highlights Provisions of the law, Challenges and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Butler Act.

Related topics
36
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
39
Extracted relationships
16
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
39

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 14 topics
Provisions of the law · 13 topics
Challenges · 9 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Bill citation
House Bill No. 185
Committee responsible
House Committee on Education · Senate Judiciary Committee
Introduced
January 21, 1925
Introduced by
John Washington Butler
Passed
January 28, 1925 · March 13, 1925
Passed by
Tennessee House of Representatives · Tennessee Senate

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Provisions of the law

Challenges

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Butler Act connects Entity context

The extracted context around Butler Act shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Butler Act → 24 voted for, 5 voted against, 6 voted against, @media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme).tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-cli… Another extracted example is Butler Act → House Committee on Education, Senate Judiciary Committee. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Butler Act

Top relations

Voting summary · 4
Butler Act → 24 voted for, 5 voted against, 6 voted against, @media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme).tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-cli…
Committee responsible · 2
Butler Act → House Committee on Education, Senate Judiciary Committee
Passed · 2
Butler Act → January 28, 1925, March 13, 1925
Passed by · 2
Butler Act → Tennessee House of Representatives, Tennessee Senate
Bill citation · 1
Butler Act → House Bill No. 185
Introduced · 1
Butler Act → January 21, 1925
Introduced by · 1
Butler Act → John Washington Butler
Repealed · 1
Butler Act → September 1, 1967
Signed · 1
Butler Act → March 21, 1925
Signed by · 1
Butler Act → Governor Austin Peay

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

law tennessee evolution butler house teaching bill act school repealed public john 1925 scopes governor also theory state prohibiting introduced

Butler Act relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 16 structured relationships around Butler Act. Examples in this analysis include Butler Act → Bill citation → House Bill No. 185 and Butler Act → Committee responsible → House Committee on Education. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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Butler ActBill citationHouse Bill No. 1851.00infobox
Butler ActCommittee responsibleHouse Committee on Education1.00infobox
Butler ActCommittee responsibleSenate Judiciary Committee1.00infobox
Butler ActIntroducedJanuary 21, 19251.00infobox
Butler ActIntroduced byJohn Washington Butler1.00infobox
Butler ActPassedJanuary 28, 19251.00infobox
Butler ActPassedMarch 13, 19251.00infobox
Butler ActPassed byTennessee House of Representatives1.00infobox
Butler ActPassed byTennessee Senate1.00infobox
Butler ActRepealedSeptember 1, 19671.00infobox
Butler ActSignedMarch 21, 19251.00infobox
Butler ActSigned byGovernor Austin Peay1.00infobox
Butler ActVoting summary@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-cli…1.00infobox
Butler ActVoting summary5 voted against1.00infobox
Butler ActVoting summary24 voted for1.00infobox
Butler ActVoting summary6 voted against1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Butler Act bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Washington, John and Repealed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Law
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    • Theory
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    • Passed
    • Representatives
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    • School
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    • John
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    • Passed
    • Repealed
    • Signed
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    • Law
  • public school
    • School
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    • State
    • Theory
    • Evolution
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    • Title
  • evolution of humans
    • Law
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  • evolution
    • Law
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    • Tennessee
    • Prohibiting
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    • Representatives
    • Teacher
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    • State
    • Theory
  • provisions of the law
    • Tennessee
    • Evolution
    • School
    • Teaching
    • Public
    • Governor
    • May
    • Prohibiting
    • Representatives
    • Signed
    • John
    • Scopes

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Butler Act, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Butler Act with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Butler Act — Overview · splits 25 ⟂ 15
Butler Act — Provisions of the law · splits 26 ⟂ 14
Butler Act — Challenges · splits 30 ⟂ 10

Map overview Semantic statistics

Butler Act

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples16
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Butler Act to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Provisions of the law, Challenges & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Butler Act · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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