Georgia was the only one of the Thirteen Colonies that did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress in 1774.
The Congress assembled in Philadelphia after Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, punitive measures aimed at Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party. Twelve colonies selected 56 delegates, but Georgia's political leadership remained more cautious. The colony faced serious threats from nearby Indigenous nations and depended heavily on British military support, making resistance especially difficult.
Georgia joined the revolutionary movement the following year and sent delegates to the Second Continental Congress. Its representatives eventually participated in the decision for independence and in the creation of the United States. Georgia was also the last of the original thirteen states to ratify the Articles of Confederation, doing so in 1778.
The wording matters because Georgia did participate in later continental congresses. A separate mix-up concerns the First Continental Congress and the First Congress under the Constitution: the former was a wartime colonial gathering in 1774, while the latter began operating in New York in 1789.