<span>withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.</span>
Equity of opportunity/ Educational Equity.
The colonists in New England specialized by using lumber for shipbuilding. The climate and land were not suitable for agriculture, but the forests provided large amounts of lumber. ... The New England colonies did not have very good farmland because of the rocky soil.
For resources and to prove that they were powerful. Their initial holdings before WW2 were not enough to fuel the war machine it wanted to become.