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How did debts cause people to give up farming and move to the city?

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During the time period when the populist movement was taking place, farmers owed too much money to the banks, and because of bad growing conditions, they could not pay their debts to the banks. Many left and found industrial jobs in the city where they could make enough money to live on.
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