Why Was the New York Colony Known as New York

Multiple Choice

Why was the New York colony known as New York?

A) It was named after Henry VIII, who had given the colony as a gift to the Dutch as a symbol of lasting peace.
B) It was a British colony that had reinvented itself, replacing its original government with a democracy.
C) It was a symbol of the end of a long period of colonial expansion, as the British had not acquired more land in years.
D) The arrival of the English in the colonies represented an increasingly new and open attitude toward blacks.
E) An Anglo-Dutch war resulted in the British king awarding the colony to his brother, the Duke of York.