The British largely ignored the colonies as opposed to trying to micromanage them and strictly enforce the laws of parliament there. This policy was summed up in a speech to Parliament by Burke, who used the phrase "a wise and salutary neglect" to describe the unwritten policy of allowing the colonies to do pretty much as they desired.
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After the colonials had fortified Dorchester Heights to the South, the British were compelled to evauate the city.
Salutary neglect was a British policy employed to revolt the strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, to keep the American colonies loyal to England, and it led to death, and massive revolts.
Salutary neglect
Salutary neglect
Salutary neglect
Salutary neglect
Salutary neglect
salutary neglect
salutary neglect
the british policy of leaving the American colonies alone
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.
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American colonials fought with the British, along with Indian allies