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