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.

Match these items. 1. a person, group, or nation united with another for some special purpose loyalist 2. an american colonist who opposed independence for the american colonies at the time of the revolutionary war; a tory ally 3. an agreement, especially one between nations, signed and approved by each nation treaty