When Rachel Cawley was born in 1869, in Richmond, Georgia, United States, her father, James Cawley, was 70 and her mother, Rebecca Hood, was 36. She died in 1883, in Richmond, Georgia, United States, at the age of 14.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish William Kevin, Brendan, Dermot, Niamh.
Irish (Mayo and Sligo): shortened form of McCauley .
English and Manx: variant of Cowley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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