The First Continental Congress met at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia in 1774.
Delegates from 12 of the 13 British North American colonies gathered there from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Georgia did not send delegates because it was dealing with conflicts involving Indigenous peoples and needed British military support.
The Congress formed a coordinated colonial response to the Intolerable Acts, passed by Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. It adopted the Continental Association, which called for a boycott of many British goods, and sent a petition to King George III.
Carpenters’ Hall is often confused with Independence Hall, then called the Pennsylvania State House. Independence Hall hosted the Second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, but the First Continental Congress met at Carpenters’ Hall. Its meeting there helped establish intercolonial cooperation before the Revolution.