Many people know Teddy Roosevelt as the 26th President of the United States (and from Robin Williams' depiction in Night at the Museum), but even before is presidency he had heavy influence in American foreign policy. Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1897-1898, where he pushed his imperialist ideas. Roosevelt and Seward had different ideas on how to get the United States to the top of world power. While Seward desired market expansion, Teddy was more concerned the United States' military power being unrivaled. He heavily identified with Alfred T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which claims that having a strong navy leads to world power. Roosevelt's tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and in the White House saw two major conflicts in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Both Seward and Roosevelt were major factors in the expansion of imperialism in the United States.
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