The correct answer is B) dumping.
The option that describes a way North American colonist participated in changing the government before the American Revolution is dumping. They dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. They did it to protest for English taxation.
On December 16, 1773, people from Massachusetts dumped almost 300n chests of tea into the water of the Boston coast. The incident was part of the colonist protest of the Tea Act of 1773, passed by the British Parliament. The colonist resistance that dropped the tea was known as the Sons of Liberty.
The other options of the question were, a) storming, c) criticizing, and d) forming.