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1838 in the United States
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s
Years:	1835 1836 1837 – 1838 – 1839 1840 1841
Flag:	26 stars; (1837 – 1845)

Events from the year 1838 in the United States.

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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 dimes.
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.