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Events from the year
1838
in the
United States
.
Incumbents
President
-
Martin Van Buren
Vice-President
-
Richard Mentor Johnson
Secretary of State
-
John Forsyth
Events
January 6
-
Samuel Morse
first publicly demonstrates the
telegraph
.
January 8
-
Alfred Vail
demonstrates a
telegraph
using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of
Morse code
).
January 12
-
Mormonism
:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
and
Sidney Rigdon
flee
Ohio
for
Missouri
January 27
-
Abraham Lincoln
speaks at the Springfield Young Men's Lyceum.
March 8
- The
New Orleans Mint
strikes its first coinage, 30
dime
.
May 26
-
Trail of Tears
: The
Cherokee removal
begins with the forced relocation of the
Cherokee
Native American
tribe, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Cherokee Indians.
June 12
- Territory of
Iowa
established
September 3
- Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future
abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
boards a train in
Maryland
on his way to freedom from
slavery
.
September 4
-
Potawatomi Trail of Death
, the forced relocation of 859 members of the
Potawatomi
nation from
Indiana
to
Kansas
, begins.
More than 40 Potawatomi die from disease and the stress of the march.
October 16
- Hoax:
Bill Stump's Stone
allegedly discovered in
Moundsville, West Virginia
.
October 27
-
Missouri
governor
Lilburn Boggs
issues the
Extermination Order
, ordering the expulsion of all
Mormons
from the state.
November 4
- Survivors of the
Potawatomi Trail of Death
arrive at the present-day site of
Osawatomie, Kansas
.
Undated
Duke University
is established in
North Carolina
.
See also
1838 in Canada
1838 in Mexico
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