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Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States when the Cherokees were remove from their demesne in the southeast of america. On the Trail of Tears well-nigh one fifth of the Cherokee population died. While on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees suffered greatly because of the horrible conditions they were in on the way to the new land in Oklahoma. When Andrew Jackson removed the Cherokees from their land, he had to go finished many steps to move them. The way the Cherokees were treated on the hint 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 due west into new lands.(http//www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/ABriefHistoryoftheTrailofTears.asp x) Jackson also made many treaties with the Cherokee tribe keeping peace, but striping them of a lot their land...