Answer:
B. Protest British taxation policies
Explanation:
The excerpt is a Newspaper Article from the Boston Gazette in 1773 that narrated how a group of colonists drowned a whole shipment of tea into the sea. These groups of men were British Colonists who pretended to be Native Americans by painting their faces with dark colors. They gained entrance into the ship and sank the shipment.
This was a display of grievance towards the British rulers who made taxation laws that made it possible for tea produced in China to be sold in the American Colonies without taxation. This policy was not acceptable with the American Colonies and this action by the disguised men annoyed the British people and was a contribution to the revolution that later happened.
