The New Jersey and Virginia Plans of the 1780s were each meant to provide a formula to choose representatives to the legislature being created during the Constitutional Convention. The Virginia Plan called for representatives to be allotted in proportion to the state's population while the New Jersey Plan would have the number of representatives be the same for each state regardless of population.
Answer: It saved lots of their lives and gave them somewhat of a freedom.
Explanation:
Both nationalism and imperialism, along with militarism, were very intertwined during this time, since nationalism created an "us vs. them" type of mentality that led countries to want to take over and occupy more territory.