SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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a decline in colonial maufacturing
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the decline of slavery in the northern colonies
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a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America
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the development of independent colonial trade practices
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies inadvertently contributed to the American Revolution. This was because during the period of salutary neglect, when the British government wasn’t enforcing its laws in the colonies, the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves.
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: -How did the British policy of salutary neglect contribute to the development of America’s constitutional democracy? Salutary neglect offered the colonists a sense of freedom, which led to their desire to become completely independent from Britain.
Detailed explanation-4: -Salutary neglect was a large contributing factor that led to the American Revolutionary War. Since the imperial authority did not assert the power that it had, the colonists were left to govern themselves. These essentially sovereign colonies soon became accustomed to the idea of self-control.