Which best describes the boston tea party of 1773? american indians boarded ships in boston harbor and dumped a shipment of tea into the water. colonists in disguise boarded ships in boston harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water. the british dumped tea in boston harbor after colonists boycotted a shipment of tea, refusing to buy it. colonists met in boston’s old south meeting house to discuss how to smuggle tea into the colonies.

The answer is Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.

Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.