USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Salutary Neglect – an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies’ continued economic loyalty.

Detailed explanation-2: -Salutary neglect was Britain’s unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Salutary neglect gave the colonists the opportunity to prosper economically while also establishing self-government. The colonies were able to control what they traded and who with, without the British breathing down their necks.

Detailed explanation-4: -This “salutary neglect” contributed involuntarily to the increasing autonomy of colonial legal and legislative institutions, which ultimately led to American independence.