Which of these is the symbol of freedom and democracy of the USA?

The Statue of Liberty, one of the most recognizable symbols of freedom and democracy across the world, was a gift of friendship to America from France.

Inaugurated in 1886, the statue is 305 feet tall and represents Libertas, the Roman liberty goddess, bearing a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left hand with the date of the US Declaration of Independence. Broken shackles lay underneath the statue's drapery, to symbolize the end of all types of servitude and oppression.

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MRogers

Lilly, you take too much “liberty” with your defining description. There’s no argument that the Statue of Liberty represents freedom from servitude and oppression. It also represents “almost universal” opportunity, but it doesn’t now nor was it necessarily intended to represent democracy.

Patty K

Alcatraz?! How could a prison be a symbol of freedom?

georgeguruwaya

Patty K, When you get released.

skclary

Alcatraz has never been a symbol of democracy and freedom!

Owen Tucker

I was gunna say the White House but thought better of that.

Cheryl Love

Allan Orton, absolutely!

Cheryl Love

Lilly strikes (out) again. WHEN will Quizzclub stop accepting these pre-school questions? They’re insulting! The questions are elementary, always, but then she always shows the answer in the photos? ENOUGH! Anyone else think Lilly is actually 8-years old and somehow fooled Quizzclub?