Of course, the whole Western World was moving and changing right alongside the young American nation. At the time, the United States was in the middle of a continuous explosion of growth and change, as nearly all of the”Wild West” had been settled and increasingly more railroad lines were stretching toward California and the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to the industrious Thomas Adams and the then-exiled Mexican President Santa Anna, Black Jack was introduced as America’s first flavored chewing gum in 1884.
