This United States History textbook contains sixteen chapters—roughly one chapter per week for a 16-week semester. Some choose not to teach the Reconstruction chapter and save that for the second half of U.S. History. If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the following chapters work well together:

• Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa (Before 1492) and Chapter 2: Early Globalization — The Atlantic World (1492–1650)
• Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy (1820–1840) and Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion (1800–1860)
• Chapter 12: Cotton Is King — The Antebellum South (1800–1860) and Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses (1820–1860)