Who won the Civil War

Suggesting that the South won the War Between the States comes across as an appalling betrayal of American History as the American people know it. But do people truly know the nations history or just what they have been taught? Closely examining the goals of the Union versus the Confederacy people will come to find who really won the war.
In the Civil War or as in any other war, either group, in this case the Union and the Confederacy, fights to restore a common goal as far as each side is concerned. In the case of the War Between the States the South wanted to continue slavery as the slaves provided cheap labor for the large plantation operations prominent in the Southern states at this time. In conjunction with keeping slavery alive they also wanted the slaves to “know their place” in society. The North on the other hand had two separate goals in mind. First, was to preserve the Union. And second, was to abolish slavery. As a result of the war both the North and South remai...