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Definition: this refers to the unofficial british policy of enforcing few of the restrictions legally placed on their north american colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Salutary Neglect

Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, introduced by prime minister Robert Walpole , to lessen the enforcement of stringent regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries


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