History of North America

What were the war aims of US Civil War?

Union:

- Preserve the Union

- Abolish slavery

- Punish the Confederacy

- Restore the federal authority over the seceded states

Confederacy:

- Secure the independence of the Confederate States of America

- Protect slavery

- Defend the rights of states to secede from the Union

- Expand the territory of the Confederacy into the western United States