New York was named after Charles II and James II dominate the British Colonies which laid an impact on America.
The British king Charles II took control over Dutch colony New Netherland in the Second Anglo-Dutch war as a result of English settlement.
He handed over the colony to James who later renamed it as New York in the honour of Charles.
With his dominance over the British Colonies and good administration James II laid an impact on remaking of North America.
Connecticut was originally established by the Dutch in the early 1630s. Eventually, the English drove the Dutch out and gained control of CT. It was officially founded in 1635 for political and religious freedom after a disagreement with the Massachusetts Bay colony.
The study of this is psychology and you basically just go off of your experience. But, there is not any actual way to read the mind yet discovered by our technology.
