Their refusal to do any type of military service.
One effect of the Boston Massacre was that "John Adams was criticized for defending the British soldiers who were involved," since he felted that they deserved fair representation.
If this question is referring to there american civil war, then the answer would be no. african americans were not only excluded, but they were still discriminated against
Internment of Japanese Americans. The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.