Who placed taxes on the colonists following the French
and Indian War, trying to
make them pay for the war
debt?

The king of parliament believed that Britain had the right to set taxes for the colonies. They needed to help pay off the debt of the wars

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths