Anti-suffragism was a political movement composed of both men and women that began in the late 19th century in order to campaign against women's suffrage in countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
President Lincoln waited for a Union victory before announcing the Emancipation Proclamation because the Union needed to show a victorious country defending the slaves in the Confederacy. If the Union didn't have a victory, the slaves would feel left out by the states that tried to save them.
