OK, I'm done early.
The Civil War:
A number of states seceded from the Union after Lincoln was elected President, right before and just as he was taking office. Lincoln felt that states seceding from the Union was not a very good idea, did not really lend itself to the "United" part of the "United States of America", and also was not legally or constitutionally allowed. If a bunch of states were "allowed" to secede from the Union for whatever reason they choose, then other states might follow suit and secede for other reasons whenever they felt their interests were not best served by the overall USA. What could eventually happen is that the entire USA could then fracture itself to the point where it becomes a number of independent republics, and not a united collection of states functioning together as a single country. Lincoln's only desire in fighting the Civil War was to keep the country united, and not divided.
That's what the Civil War was about.
Now I'm sure you dumbasses will now try to argue "LOL, why did the southern states secede in the first place, it was SLAVERY!!!". And that would be correct. But in the larger context of why Lincoln decided to go to war with the seceding states, that as a reason is irrelevant. They could have seceded because they thought the national favorite color should be red and not blue. The bottom line is that the Civil War was fought over what Lincoln saw as an illegal and unconstitutional process of states deciding they were going to take their balls and go home because they felt that their individual interests were not best being served by the larger entity known as the United States.
Did either of you dumbasses further realize that Lincoln, though personally opposed to the idea of slavery on principle, actually had no desire to abolish slavery in the states where it was deeply ingrained because he knew it would devastate the southern economy?
You really ought to take some time and read a book now and then. It's weird. You can actually learn stuff in books.