From the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London, Britain gained roots in North America cemented by trade. Through mercantilism, the original role of the colonies had been to supply Britain with raw materials, but an influx of immigration to the colonies caused steady population growth and created stable urban centers that could support the growth of manufacturing industries. Britain and her thirteen thriving settlements in North America were connected culturally, economically, and politically, but by 1760 these ties had loosened due to the unofficial policy of salutary neglect in which the British Parliament did not enforce legislation such as taxes and trade laws like the Navigation Acts. …show more content…
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long lasting 17th-18th century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England Salutary Neglect in depth- colonies were 3,000 miles from England so it was too expensive and too difficult to enforce the Navigation Acts ( in which colonial exports could only travel on English ships to English ports were heavy duties were added, trading directly with France, Spain and the Netherlands was much more profitable.) Salutary neglect was also because they did not want to dissatisfy the colonists who could find an ally with France. The colonies learned to self-govern and practice local democracy, establishing their own legislation and colonial courts. Though most of the colonists still considered themselves British citizens, they also felt sovereign due to salutary …show more content…
The British felt as though the colonies owed these war debts, while the colonists felt they were unjust. The colonists did not initially plan to become independent from its mother country, but rather to be taxed, As the British power stretched the cost of empire was very high the colony was facing an enormous postwar debt and already high tax's as well as the need to finance the administration of its newly acquired lands, the American colonies as financial burden to the mother (England). The colonist protest against the British taxes by making intellectual protests they give speeches and try to make their opinion be heard, they made economical boycotts they attacked the East Indian tea distributor, and throw many package of British tea from their ships to the sea, they attacked guards like the Boston massacre. Stamp act, the colonist thought this was good because by this British will lower the costs, but it was only a tax for every printed paper or any paper will have a tax to pay, and the colonist fight against