The tax on whiskey by the federal government started the rebellion (the rebels were mostly farmers who used whiskey as a sort of currency), and George Washington personally led 13,000 troops to end the rebellion, but the rebels broke up in fear.
The heart of Dixie or the cotton state or the yellowhammer state, Alabama doen't have a offical nickname
He was originally negotiating with for access to the mouth of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. France was low on money at the time, and in need of a lot of money to fund more of Napoleon's battles - so France offered their ENTIRE Louisiana Territory instead of just New Orleans for only three cents an acre