Temperance is from the Latin temperantia ("moderation, self-control") — one of the four classical cardinal virtues. **A Puritan virtue name brought to colonial America by the Pilgrims; Temperance Wilkinson was among the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 1620**. **The American Temperance Movement (1820s-1933) drove women's organized political activity in the United States** — culminating in both the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) and, two months earlier, the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage). **Frances Willard's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the largest American women's organization of the 19th century**. **Temperance "Bones" Brennan** of the TV series *Bones* (2005-2017) — forensic anthropologist played by Emily Deschanel.
Subject of Daniel Okrent's *Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition* (2010).
Temperance reduces to one — the number of cardinal virtue.