The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.
Socialism
Socialism advocates that the means of production,
distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a
whole. This denies the individual the opportunity to make their own free
choices as it limits them politically and economically.
Positive--resulted in the lowering of the voting age to 18, contributed to the end of the Vietnam War, contributed to furthering the civil rights movements of the time.
Negative--they were violent and led to the deaths of many in riots and shootings, their means were not taken seriously by adults and conservatives of the time,
