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-The South's romantic ideal of male-female relationships. The ideal's underlying assumptions about the weakness of white women and the protective authority of men resembled the paternalistic defense of slavery.
A)chivalry
B)cotton kingdom
C)free black
D)Mason-Dixon line
E)miscegenation
F)paternalism
G)plantation
H)plantation belt
I)planter
J)slave codes
K)upcountry
L)yeomen

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Chivalry is the South's romantic ideal of male-female relationships, which resembled the paternalistic defense of slavery. Its underlying assumptions about the weakness of white women and the protective authority of men are also similar to those of paternalism.

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