From 1607 to 1754, European involvement in North America skyrockets. The British colonies are a loosely connected organization along the coast of North America, with contrasting interests in embracing and spreading religion and mercantilism in the North and agricultural living supported through the institution of slavery in the south. Within these two contrasting dynamics, Westward Expansion persists which leads to conflict between the English on the coast and the French hunters and trappers and the Native Americans in the interior of the continent.