Salutary Neglect (1700) (nov 22, 1640 – jan 1, 1700)
Description:
to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in eighteenth centuries.unofficial policy of the British government in practice from about the late 1600s to the mid-1700s that allowed its North American colonies to be left largely on their own with little British interference.
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Date:
nov 22, 1640
jan 1, 1700
~ 59 years