It was "Francois Rabelais" who wrote the humorous novel Pantagruel, published in 1532, which poked fun at the established order, since this was during a time when many voices of "protest" made their way through literary works such as this.
Different ideas, cultures, religions, lots of factors.
They both dealt with representation in Congress
In 1854, the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, split two
existing political parties the Whig party and Jacksonian Democrats and led to
the creation of the Republican party. Kansas-Nebraska act overturned the Missouri
compromise and allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in
their state. This led to the creation of the Republican party founded by anti-slavers
whose primary objective was fighting slavery.
