The British policy of salutary neglect....?

Question

A)prevented the colonies from developing diverse economies.
B)sent many royal officers to run the colonies.
C)enforced strict laws such as the Navigation Act.
D)allowed the colonies economic freedom.

Answer 1

First, note the word "neglect". That itself eliminates some of the choices.

It helps, then, to know what that word "salutary" means. So, checking a dictionary, you could substitute something like, "beneficial, wholesome"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salutary

In other words, it was a neglect (a way of NOT acting) with GOOD results.

How did that describe the British policy toward the colonies?

I invite you to look at where the phrase originated -- in the the expression "a wise and salutary neglect" used by Edmund Burke, speaking before Parliament on March 22, 1775. (The speech is titled "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies")

Here is a link to the speech, and below is the paragraph in which the expression appears.
http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/LFBooks/Burke/brkSWv1c3.html
(the section quoted is at the end of section 1.3.30, note esp.the words I've set in caps)

". . . When I contemplate these things [the wealth and industrious toils of the Colonies --see the beginning of the paragraph]; when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, THROUGH A WISE AND SALUTARY NEGLECT, a generous nature has been suffered TO TAKE HER OWN WAY to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I SEE HOW PROFITABLE THEY HAVE BEEN TO US, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the SPIRIT OF LIBERTY."

If you're still unsure, try this:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/prerevolution/terms.html

(By the way, a simple web search of "salutary neglect" would find links like this last one...)

Answer 2

The political events in Britain had been combating every different, with little regard for the the demands or wants of the colonials. The tax coverage used to be to elevate budget, in part to offset the rate of preserving troops and Governors in America, however extra simply to elevate usual budget.

Answer 3

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