It was the Netherlands that originally settled the colony that would later become known as New York.
The North had more buildings because the South depended on plantations and farms for slavery.
I think it's David G. Farragut, I just researched.
Government regulation plays a role in business in protecting consumers, preventing actions taken by businesses that will hurt the overall economy, and also in regulating the financial industries sector to prevent major economic turmoil. Periods of unregulated economic activity have been mired by large booms and busts, so governments have attempted to intervene to regulate economies in order to prevent these damaging cycles to economies.