{"id":1648,"date":"2017-07-24T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory1os\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1648"},"modified":"2024-09-10T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:15:59","slug":"pacing","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/pacing\/","title":{"raw":"Pacing","rendered":"Pacing"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/10205220\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"icon of a stopwatch\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" \/>\r\n\r\nThis United States History textbook contains sixteen modules\u2014roughly one module\u00a0\u00a0per week for a 16-week semester. Some choose not to teach the Reconstruction module 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 modules work well together:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Module 6: Creating a Government (1776\u20131783) and\u00a0Module 7: The Early Republic (1790\u20131820)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 10: Jacksonian Democracy (1820\u20131840) and Module 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion (1800\u20131860)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 12: Cotton Is King \u2014 The Antebellum South (1800\u20131860) and Module 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses (1820\u20131860)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAll of the modules are comparable in size and depth, though the slightly shorter\/smaller modules in the course are the following, with Module 13 being the shortest:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Module 1: Indigenous America and Early European Exploration<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 4: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests (1763\u20131774)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 6: Creating a Government (1776\u20131783)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 11: Cotton Is King \u2014 The Antebellum South (1800\u20131860)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 13: Troubled Times \u2014 The Sectional Crisis<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nLarger modules, which may be stretched out over multiple weeks include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Module 3: British North America<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 8: Industrial Transformation (1800\u20141850)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 14: The Civil War (1860\u20131865)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Module 15: The Era of Reconstruction (1865\u20131877)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/10205220\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"icon of a stopwatch\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This United States History textbook contains sixteen modules\u2014roughly one module\u00a0\u00a0per week for a 16-week semester. Some choose not to teach the Reconstruction module 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 modules work well together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Module 6: Creating a Government (1776\u20131783) and\u00a0Module 7: The Early Republic (1790\u20131820)<\/li>\n<li>Module 10: Jacksonian Democracy (1820\u20131840) and Module 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion (1800\u20131860)<\/li>\n<li>Module 12: Cotton Is King \u2014 The Antebellum South (1800\u20131860) and Module 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses (1820\u20131860)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the modules are comparable in size and depth, though the slightly shorter\/smaller modules in the course are the following, with Module 13 being the shortest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Module 1: Indigenous America and Early European Exploration<\/li>\n<li>Module 4: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests (1763\u20131774)<\/li>\n<li>Module 6: Creating a Government (1776\u20131783)<\/li>\n<li>Module 11: Cotton Is King \u2014 The Antebellum South (1800\u20131860)<\/li>\n<li>Module 13: Troubled Times \u2014 The Sectional Crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Larger modules, which may be stretched out over multiple weeks include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Module 3: British North America<\/li>\n<li>Module 8: Industrial Transformation (1800\u20141850)<\/li>\n<li>Module 14: The Civil War (1860\u20131865)<\/li>\n<li>Module 15: The Era of Reconstruction (1865\u20131877)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1648\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Pacing. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div 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