USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -From 1690 to 1760, Parliament and the king of England allowed colonists in America to exercise a great deal of control over local and regional matters. Historians have described this practice as “salutary neglect."

Detailed explanation-2: -As England moved away from a policy of salutary neglect, their intervention in the colonies with taxation acts and governmental regulations eventually led to the American Revolution and the colonies declaration of independence in 1776.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Salutary neglect was an undocumented, though long-standing British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. Prime Minister Robert Walpole stated that “If no restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would flourish".

Detailed explanation-5: -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.