The only reason that we look at the Boston Tea Party as a "good" thing that happened is because that side ended up winning a war. If the British had won that conflict it would be a footnote in history, noting that some hooligans destroyed some property.

Yep and maybe she'll be vindicated by future historians. But right now she's going to do 20 years.

Was it? Which part of it caused terror?

I mean, unless you're trying to be funny.

Sure, but no one would argue, I hope, that British society would have been improved if the British government had changed their laws so that the Tea Party would no longer be a crime.