Answer: B) Alleged crime.
Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt from Susan B. Anthony's "On women's Right to Vote" the phrase that helps to create a tone of doubt is "alleged crime" because she doesn't think that a woman voting is a crime.
