Oh I can do this, I know I’m Strayan but I know lots about it, here we go:
So there was slavery and then Lincoln gave a speech at a place called Gettysburg, which I think is in Pennsylvania or somewhere, where he said they were going to end slavery, the South was like no way and there was a war. Lincoln was a Republican but I don’t think the Democrats were a thing back then so the opposition was someone else, idk who. I guess the Whigs or something. They were a party at some point so maybe it was them. There was a guy called Robert E. Lee on the side of the South (also called the Confederacy) and a guy called Ulysses S. Grant in the North (the Union) who was fighting for abolition even though he owned a fucking slave. There were more guys I guess but those were the main guys. Anyway the North ended up winning. Also Lincoln got shot on a train at some point by a guy called John Wilkes Booth I think, but idk if that was during the war or after it or what.
Anyway there’s probably more to it than that but there’s enough to get you started. You’re welcome.