Salutary neglect

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.

  • 1450

    Iroquois Confederation (constitution)

    A powerful confederation of Native American Indians
  • Settling of Jamestown

    The first permanent English settlement in North America.
  • Virginia House of Burgesses

    THe fisrt legislative assmebly in the American colonies
  • Pilgrims Land at Plymouth rock

    The settlers established a colony
  • Mayflower Compact

    A set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    An early agreement between the colonial communities
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Gov. William Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of Native American attacks on the frontier settlement. Hardened the racial lines between slavery.
  • Glorious Revolution

    The overthrowing of Kings James ll of England
  • English (British) Bill of Rights

    British law that declared the rights and liberties of the people
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Series of hangings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
  • John Peter Zenger

    He was put on trial for releasing published information that opposed the government