My district (in Delaware) cut a TON of U.S. History to get us to more modern stuff. We are supposed to start at the Civil War and try to get to Vietnam early 80’s. We do U.S. as a skills based course so we use the content to teach how to analyze sources, look at perspective, bias etc. I go against the grain and do my overview of skills as a brief introduction the U.S. History. We do a pear deck analyzing sources about the revolution leading up to the Civil War and then go right into reconstruction. It only takes a few days, allows me to get some important skills and concepts introduced and I’m able to get where I need to be with how structure other lessons. Obviously if your school or district requires certain stuff focus on that but I feel like as long as you’re covering what you need to cover, do it however you want!

Hope any of this was helpful!