Original sentence: The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (CS) or the Confederacy, was a government set up in 1861 by seven slave states (i.states which permitted slavery) of the Lower South that had declared their secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln
Edited sentence: The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (CS) or the Confederacy, was a government set up in 1861 by seven of the Lower South that had declared their secession from the United States following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln