5. In 1867, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act, which divided the South into five military districts and required each state to create a new government, one that included participation of black men. 
6.The 1868 election was won by Republican and former Union general Ulysses Grant. 
7. The 15th amendment prohibited states from denying men the right to vote based on race, but not based on gender or literacy or whether your grandfather could vote. 

8. Reconstruction ended because things like schools and road repair cost money, which meant taxes, which made Republican governments very unpopular because Americans hate taxes. Reconstruction also ended because white southerners could not accept African Americans exercising basic civil rights, holding office or voting. 

9. The Klu Klux Klan was founded in 1866 and it quickly became a terrorist organization. 

10. The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protectcivil and political rights of blacks were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of blacks voters.