Salutary Neglect Research Paper

The British Salutary Neglect, pre-1750, advanced the colonials to a unique society.

This society was filled with diverse religions and distinct legislative assemblies.

It also was a society that had a diverse commerce.

Salutary neglect enabled the colonists to question their beliefs and to develop their own ideas about religion.

The colonists were able to develop and.

Especially in the Great Awakening was the reforming of the colonists' religious beliefs obvious.

It was people like George Whitefield, who stirred up the Awakening, and Jonathan Edwards, who wrote the book Faithful Narratives, who helped develop new ideas on religion.

Salutary neglect denied the colonies an Anglican bishop which forced the colonies to think of other religions and thus came the

schisms of the church which added to the uniqueness of the colonial society.

It was salutary neglect that enabled colonies like Maryland to establish such acts as the Act of Toleration which allowed more religious freedom.

These acts allowed the colonists more religious freedom than any other country in the world at the time making them unique.

With salutary neglect in the colonies, the Quakers and the Puritans were able to continue with their customs and traditions thus adding a diverse quality to the colonial society in which they lived.

All of these actions allowed by salutary neglect enabled the colonists to create a unique society.

Salutary neglect enabled the colonists to do many actions that many other English territories were not allowed, and one of these actions included making distinctive legislative assemblies.

This was first seen in Virginia with the formation of the House of Burgesses, whose ideal was different than that of parliament's.

Also seen in the colonies due to salutary neglect were town meetings, whose very democratic model was not seen since the classic times of Rome and Greece.

Another sign of democracy which was very unique in the days of the colonies was the Charter or Privileges, which guaranteed the citizens of Pennsylvania certain privileges.

Something that was also very distinctive was the Fundamental Orders written by Thomas Hooker which was a model for the constitutions to

come.

Thus all these democratic ideals came together and allowed the colonists to have a very unique society.

Salutary neglect helped the colonists mold a very unique economy.

Salutary neglect allowed the colonists to ignore such acts as the Navigation Acts and Molasses Act letting the colonists' economy vary.

It forced the colonists to come up with other resources for their economy England ignored the colonies.

Especially in the case of the crop tobacco was salutary neglect in play, John Rolfe was forced to perfect the crop due to the fact that England neglected to help the colonies, particularly the Virginia Join-Stock Company, from the outset of the colony.

Also with salutary neglect was the ability to participate in the Triangle Trade which allowed the colonies to mass produce such things as tobacco, sugar, and grains.

Even though salutary neglect at first was not beneficial to the colonies, in the end it proved to be good for the diversification of the colonies' economy.

From the outset salutary neglect seemed to be a horrible practice but without salutary neglect there wouldn't have been a byproduct, which was the unique society created.

This byproduct, a unique society, lead to a sense of independence in the colonies.

This independence then lead to the revolution.

So, in essence, salutary neglect was what lead to the revolution.