Answer:
The answer is the third option, "Salutary neglect".
Step-by-step explanation:
During colonial times, around the 17th century the British government didn't have official policies that ruled the colonies. The British officials had little supervision on merchants, independent corporations, and companies they just governed themselves.
All of it changed with the salutary neglect policy that ruled trade regulations for the American colonies. This policy wants that all goods shipped to and from the American colonies had to be carried on British/English ships.