The First Continental Congress met at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia before the Declaration era celebrated by America250.
Delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies gathered there from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Georgia did not send delegates to this first Congress. The meeting responded to Britain’s Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by many colonists, and sought a coordinated colonial response.
The First Continental Congress did not declare independence. Instead, it adopted the Continental Association, a boycott of British goods, and sent a petition to King George III. The Second Continental Congress convened the following year at the Pennsylvania State House, later called Independence Hall, and eventually adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.