The term that could be best described as the way that Kevin is thinking is a social comparison. Social comparison is being defined as a way of individual's determine his or her social worth in which could be based from how the person stack against other people in which we could see how Kevin felt better after finding out that Samantha was struggling more than him.
Answer:
The War Between the States.
Explanation:
I find the "War Between the States" to be most appropriate because the country was torn in half and fighting eachother. Plus the "War for Southern Independence" gives off a positive connotation in a way that made it seem like the South was in the right (they were not).
