HELP PLEASE ( a paragraph or two will work)
In a five-paragraph essay, assess the legality of the Confederacy's secession in light of the colonies' break from Britain and other facts presented in this assignment and in the rest of the course. You may bring in additional sources of information; just be sure to give proper credit to them.

I won't type the whole essay, but i have a tip that i use for all of my essays, and i usually get high grades, so let me try and help.

Structure:

Write a summary-intro about the topic. 1 paragraph

Next write three-five topics that you will be discussing in the essay. three-five, depending on how much you will be writing about the topics.

For each topic, write four-five details about the topic, use sources and  such to help gather info on the details for the topic.

I hope i helped a little, comment on this answer and i will continue to assist you in this essay :)