On July 4, 1884 France gave the United States an amazing nirthday gift: the Statue of Liberty! the base at the bottom, it sas tall as a 15-story building. She is a symbol of the United states. But the world-famous statue of Liberty standing in New York Horbor was uilt in France. The statue was shown to the us.. taken apart, shippe across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the U.S. It was France's gift to the American people.