The bourbon democrats refers to a group of people from democratic party who support laissez-faire capitalism.
At that time, several bourbon democrats in Louisiana develop a relationship with important people from railroads and banking industry. They are allegedly help those people to hide their taxes.
They also leverage their power to illegally run Louisiana State Lottery Company and stole a lot of money from the ticket buyers
The US purchased the Florida Territory from Spain... i think that was in 1819
