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From VOA Learning English, this is THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in Special English. I’m Steve Ember.This week in our series, we look at the start of the American Revolution.The road to revolution in the late seventeen hundreds took several years. There were protests against the British policy of taxing the colonies without giving them representation in Parliament.To prevent trouble, the British sent thousands of soldiers to Boston, the largest city in Massachusetts. Jayne Gordon, the director of education and public programs at the Massachusetts Historical Society, explain