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British Policy of Salutary Neglect
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: British Policy of Salutary Neglect
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The United States of 2015 offers a drastically different lifestyle to that of our ancestors. In today’s modern America,
it is hard to think back and imagine the lives of those before us. Most people take for granted the freedom they
experience in their everyday lives. This freedom may be owed in part to the unofficial British policy of salutary
neglect. With the word “salutary” meaning favorable and promoting health, this policy was Britain’s way of letting
their colonies in America prosper. This policy offered and assortment of advantages and disadvantages to both
Britain and the colonies while also planting a seed among the colonies that would change the country forever.
In the early 1600s, Britain began to pursue a system of mercantilism, the idea of a country being almost solely self
sufficient, by exporting more than it imports. To achieve this goal, British parliament enacted the Navigation Acts
in their American colonies. The four acts were: only English or English colonial ships could carry cargo between
imperial ports, certain good, including tobacco, rice, and furs, could not be shipped to foreign nations except
through England or Scotland, the English Parliament would pay “bounties” to Americans who produced certain
raw goods, while raising protectionist tariffs of the same goods produced in other nations, and Americans could
not compete with English manufacturers in large-scale manufacturing. These acts put a major restraint on trading
within the colonies, and angered many colonists as well. Instead of following these laws, colonists began to
smuggle goods instead. Even though the British were fully aware of the breaking of the laws, they ignored it. This
was the idea of salutary neglect as proposed by British Pr...
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