Causes of the Civil War Directions: For the past few weeks we have been building on our understandings of the major causes of the Civil War. Today you will begin to show what you learn. In the following chart you will define the different causes of the Civil War and then explain why these things contributed to the start of the Civil War. You can use everything in your arsenal to answer these. You can together. look back at your notes, our slides, or any assignments we have used to help you in putting this Cause of the Civil War Definition: What happened Why was this a cause of here? the Civil War? Fugitive Slave Act The act required that IF requirat it Frat at escaped slaves, cipen capture, b slaves be returned to the the slaver and that's their owners Adding new states into the Union Dred Scott Decision John Brown's Raid Presidential Election of 1860 Scoring: 2 points per completed box. (20 total points)