The correct answer is "Taney fails to provide any actual evidence for his statements that African Americans were universally considered inferior". In a court of law, a party's claim is a counterclaim if one party asserts claims in response to the claims of another. The Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued on March 6, 1857. This declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts. It was delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney.
The correct answer is 1, because the appositive there is 'the cardinal'. An appositive is usually separated from the rest of the sentence by commas, and refers to the subject.
The action verb of the sentence represented above is "ran". An action verb is a verb that expresses a particular action. As you can see, this sentence contains only one predicate and, of course, only one verb so it's pretty easy to get the answer you are looking for.
The answer to this question is B