How are the Boston Tea Party participants not terrorist?

How were the so-called patriots of Boston Harbor’s famous tea party not terrorist? You dress up as Native American, board ships that you don’t own, toss over teas to screw the sitting government you don’t bother stealing the teas to sell or use, it was done not because they wanted to personally attack some business owner but the Crown, so, how it is not and act of terrorism,? The fact that the winners get to redact history with their slant, have anything to do with it? We, the US, won the War of Independence to we got to frame the act in a favorable light? Would those Native American dressed cowards if they were not they would have gone as themselves been seen as patriots and good guys had the Crown won?