Compare And Contrast Lincoln And Roosevelt

During the times of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, America was utterly going through its ups and downs with its political identity. Lincoln and Roosevelt each acquired unique skills that predominately shaped America in many different ways. Expectations of government were evolving during the periods of both Presidents because the people wanted more justice and to be a globally recognized country with an immense amount of power. Moreover, Lincoln’s role as being President was to preserve the Union along with initiating the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. On the contrary, Roosevelt strongly influenced America with his enthusiastic ways and reshaped it by establishing powerful imperialistic views, becoming involved in foreign affairs, and assuring that the US get the justice that it deserved. Although both Lincoln and

Roosevelt had a tremendous impact on reshaping America, Teddy Roosevelt used the power of the government to regulate the US economy, deeply understood and resolved conflicts with other nations, and lastly, had a dominant naval force background.
Before Lincoln was even elected as President, the United States was divided into northern (union) and confederacy (south).

With that being said, his only concern was with preserving the North. The north had a supplemental army, prestigious factories, and rations. Compared to the south where they did have a low army size, but lacked supplements and essential training skills needed to defeat the Union. During the Civil War, Lincoln did not want the North to declare victory over the south. This was because the south did not want to secede from the north without the abolishment of slavery occurring. The thing is that despite Lincoln being an advocate for freeing the slaves, many people living in the South had already predicted that slavery was bound to end at some point. In the end of the war, the north ended up winning the, and it vastly improved their economy, abundance of military equipment, and industrialization in factory settings. Due to the implementations of the war, America’s identity was unclear because the Union had achieved much more success than the south, which in turn does not shape America into a functional

country.
Lincoln is mainly renown for establishing the Emancipation Proclamation and, he never announced that he was an advocate for emancipation throughout his entire life. Lincoln actually started his presidential career by saying that he was "antislavery". It is extremely ironic considering he was against the expansion of slavery, but did absolutely nothing in helping the salves by not calling for immediate emancipation. Nonetheless, Lincoln, who began as "antislavery", eventually called for the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that all people who are being held as slaves within rebellious states are to be set free. He forcefully supported the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the United States. At this point of Lincoln’s presidency, America was somewhat progressing into becoming a country that had an ample amount of power.
Lastly, one huge argumentative issue I must address is the lack of foreign involvement Lincoln had with other countries from around the world. His foreign policy only focused on the Civil War, prevention of other countries intervening in the war, and blocking the south from getting supplies such as grain and cotton from countries such as England and France. The big issue here is how he was ruthless in not aiding the south with any supplements that could have possibly made them victorious in the Civil War. This clearly shows that he was a stronger supporter for boosting the north than the south so that he can be satisfied with the work he put into doing that.
On the contrary, Roosevelt was actually quite heroic before serving as President of the United States. Furthermore, he fought against Spain in Cuba in the Spanish-American war while being the leader of the Rough Riders, which consisted of men from all types of occupations who voluntary helped Roosevelt reach San Juan Hill. Upon returning to America, Roosevelt was now renown for having a powerful military force behind him, which greatly impacted his presidential career and positively reshaping America into a powerful country. His first task was to construct a shortcut for ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as a means to trading globally among other countries. Initially, the French attempted to build a canal similar to the Panama canal, but failed to do so because of financial difficulties.
Roosevelt had this mentality of America having relatively the same victorious goals as imperialists had. In other words, he utilized the Monroe Doctrine in his advantage to expand the western hemisphere. Furthermore, the western hemisphere was cut off for any country to invade. He also established the “Big Stick” diplomacy that was a dominated policy cultivated by navy forces and was an enabler for negotiating with other countries, especially Latin America. In reality, he wanted America to be seen as a world power from other countries, despite the controversial foreign affairs it was constantly put in.
What is a huge problem to this day is how many people perceived him as to being a racial bigot. Moreover, he wanted whites to be advantageously superior then races of a lower class. He was also an activist in granting Filipinos their rights, but what’s ironic is how he had no intention of granting them any rights himself.
In conclusion, both Roosevelt and Lincoln had their successes and failures into developing America into a stable political stance. I thoroughly explained the evidentiary support each president achieved in doing, and still believe that Roosevelt had more of a vigorous impact on America. He ensured that the people be protected by a fierce military component and reinforced how he only cared about America succeeding into a solid country, instead of being simply being admired from other countries.