A result of the British policy of salutary neglect is seen in what example? The Navigation Acts: In 1651, the British government passed a series of laws that regulated the trade of the empire. The Navigation Acts regulated the trade of British colonies and restricted their tr...
British bounties were paid on the production of naval stores. These facts, coupled with the salutary neglect of the colonies introduced by Robert Walpole and the nonenforcement of the more onerous laws, permitted a steady development of American economic life. The colonists meanwhile had the ...