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Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States when the Cherokees were removed from their land in the southeast of america. On the Trail of Tears nearly one fifth of the Cherokee population died. While on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee’s suffered greatly because of the horrible conditions they were in on the way to the new land in Oklahoma. When Andrew Jackson removed the Cherokee’s from their land, he had to go through many steps to move them. The way the Cherokees were treated on the trail of tears caused many Cherokees great pain, deaths of friends and family, and suffering. The government made promises saying that no Americans would settle in their new territory. The government and the Cherokees signed the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785. The Treaty of Hopewell set new boundaries of Cherokee lands. Jackson promised the cherokees money if they moved west into new lands.(http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/ABriefHistoryoftheTrailofTears.aspx) Jackson also made many treaties with the Cherokee people keeping peace, but striping them of a lot their land...