Complex sentence: Spinning Bees emerged in the decade prior to the American Revolution as a way for women to protest British policies and taxation by producing homespun cloth to help the colonists wean their dependence from British goods.
Split into simpler sentences: Spinning Bees emerged in the decade prior to the American Revolution as a way for women to protest British policies and taxation. At these public events, women produced homespun cloth to help the colonists wean their dependence on British goods.