How did southern men's emphasis on chivalry affect southern law? white women kept their own property after they married. southern laws affirmed the paramount rights of husbands. laws protected women from unfair treatment by their husbands. women could more easily seek divorce in the south than in the north?

I am not quite sure how is effected anything. coming from a southern background women have a long history there playing a certain role, the homemaker. Even in my own lifetime I know people who have done that their entire lives. perhaps the laws did help but I don't think they were reflected in southern society.

The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.