7 Indoor Plants That Are Safe for Pets (& Also Improve Our Health) by Kathy â February 24, 2013 May 30, 2015 â Comments (2) Having plants in the house is a very easy way to spruce up a room, and they can benefit our indoor air quality as well as our mood. The tricky part can be finding plants that are aesthetically pleasing to us and our particular tastes and safe for our pets. Cats and dogs sometimes chew on plants, and if the plant contains toxins it can cause intestinal problems and â in bad cases â death.
In the 1864 election, Lincoln won 55.03% of the popular vote and had a fairly high margin of victory of 10.08% against competitor George McClellan with 22 states carried. Lincoln's electoral vote percentage increased in 1864 to 90.99% (212 of 233 votes).
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president.