Synonyms. 1  They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees. 2  The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park. 3  Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged. They rode down a dirt path in the forest amid the thickets of bushes and trees. 2  The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
Hispanic-American civil rights embody the overall social and economic integration of Hispanics into American society. Hispanic Americans come from a variety of places throughout Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and El Salvador; they may also come from Spain.
In 1845, America tried buying huge parts of Mexican land that included present day California and New Mexico. When Mexico refused to part with its land, America tried using force. Mexico and America both maintained that the border was theirs. This led to the beginning of the Mexican America War that would last for two years (1846-48). America won the war decisively. Mexico had to give up California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona.