Which of the Following Is an Example of an Avoidance-Avoidance

question 171

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an avoidance-avoidance conflict?

• A) A person who enjoys the ocean has to choose between retiring to the Bahamas or Tahiti.
• B) A student has to decide whether to turn in an unfinished paper and receive a failing grade or hand it in late and lose many points.
• C) A person has to choose between wanting to eat some cake but not wanting the calories.
• D) A person who loves chocolate must choose between eating chocolate cake or chocolate ice cream.

Understand the economic importance of cotton and slavery to the national and international markets before the Civil War.

Analyze the complicity of the North in the expansion of slavery due to economic demands.

Recognize the significant internal slave trade within the United States from 1820 to 1860.

Examine the differing impacts and dependencies on slavery between northern and southern states.

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