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what did the british policy of salutary neglect of the american colonies in the early eighteenth century mean

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Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century

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