Essay week 2 LO1 Salutary Neglect refers to an unmeant policy passed in Great Britain to permit American colonies to grow autonomously, politically, socially, and economically. It developed in different ages and can be split in three different stages. Despite the fact that mercantilist ideas were getting stronger and broadly furnishing trade policy, from 1607 to 1696, England had no logical royal rules regarding possessions and laws overseas. From the years 1696 to 1763 the Navigation Acts was passed to form logical rules but were not enforced. The last phase, from 1763 to 1775, points out the end of Salutary Neglect. Due to the results of the Seven Years War in which Britain acquired large areas of land, Britain initiated the implementation …show more content…
He instead formed a godly community, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that was an example of reformers back home. Roger Williams was a political and religious leader who established Rhode Island in 1636. He encouraged the separation of the Church and the state in Colonial America. The way in which he viewed religious freedom matched his disapproval of the way in which Native Americans were being expropriated from their properties. His believes caused anger from his Church which in turn banished him from the …show more content…
The primary intention of the Massachusetts Bay was to make business but was also used by the Puritans as a refuge. In 1630, 11 ships arrived to Massachusetts with about 1,000 settlers who founded Boston and seven towns close by. Then in 1635, English government intended to invalidate the charter, but the colony decided not to return it. After many interruptions and requests along with the political and religion conflicts with in England, the charter was at last revoked, after 50 years of self-government, in June 1684. Once again “Salutary Neglect” became an informal policy of English