The British policy of salutary neglect in the first half of the eighteenth century involved
a. avoiding contact with the native peoples of North America in the hope of maintaining peaceful relations on the frontier
b. encouraging colonists to not focus of the religious practices of their neighbors but instead live and let live
c. allowing for the North American colonies to develop economically without rigid enforcement of mercantilist trade laws
d. cutting political ties with the North American colonies and redirecting attention to colonies in Africa and Asia
e. letting children play on their own, away form the watchful eyes of adults
Ans: c. allowing for the North American colonies to develop economically without rigid enforcement of mercantilist trade laws
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