WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Before 1763 the British policy of salutary neglect toward its American colonies was based on? The desire of Great Britain to benefit from the economic prosperity of the American colonies. Many Antifederalists opposed ratifaction of the Constitution until? They were guaranteed better protection of individual liberties.

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 benefitted the American colonies by allowing them to establish foreign trade relationships without British government control. The colonies also had enough freedom from the British to shape the foundations of American government.

Detailed explanation-4: -The policy and era of Salutary Neglect lasted from the 1690’s to the 1760’s and benefited the colonists boosting their profits from trade. The British reversed their policy of Salutary Neglect to raise taxes in the colonies to pay for the massive war debt incurred during the French and Indian Wars.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.